| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.2

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Hidden Worlds: Revisiting the Mennonite Migrants of the 1870s. By Royden Loewen. (North Newton, KS: Bethel College, 2001. x + 139 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $15.00, paper.)

The North American West, as most historians know, is pocked with ethno-religious settlements or colonies of European origin, founded in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Some of these communities disappeared in the ensuing decades, having been absorbed gradually into mainstream society; others, mostly migrants from England and the Scandinavian countries, were quickly and thoroughly assimilated into the Mormon communities of the West with their uniquely American qualities; still others retained their identities as they made necessary, and sometimes transforming, accommodations to their American or Canadian environments. All groups were affected by the physical environment, but the rate of change was conditioned by circumstances—some internal, such as theological commitment or sociocultural practices, others external, such as economic, social, political, and legal variables. . . .

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